 | 1828 - 454 pages
...We say this, without meaning any disparagement to Mr. Udc, upon the authority of Pope, who says, " One science only will one genius fit. So vast Is art — so narrow human wit." If Quin had now lived he would have idolized Mr. Ude, who could have provided him with dishes more... | |
 | 1834 - 614 pages
...each, but was unable to embrace them all, and hesitated in making a selection. I had learned that ' One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit.' 20. SERIES, NO. 40. — VOL. IV. " At first I felt such an attachment to astronomy, that I resolved... | |
 | John Duncan (philosophical writer.) - 1820 - 138 pages
...find a limit, but the range is never without • one. Science, it is said, is long ; life, short. " One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit." Cffisar is distinguished as a general ; Aristotle, as a phi'ier; Homer, as a poet; but neither Caesar,... | |
 | British poets - 1822 - 276 pages
...of understanding fails ; Where beams of warm imagination play, The memory's soft figures melt away. One science only will one genius fit; So vast is art, so narrow human wit: Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confined to single parts. Like kings we lose the... | |
 | John Walker - 1822 - 404 pages
...adopt the falling inflection with considerable force in the caesura of the last line but one. EXAMPLE. One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit ; Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confin'd to single parts ; Like kings, we lose... | |
 | William Hayley - 1823 - 762 pages
...friendly air of that village -- " I am interrupted by visitors — more to-morrow. " Friday, Nov. 4. ' One science only will one genius fit, ' So vast is art, so narrow human wit.' " This couplet of Pope will prove to my infinitely dear little " sculptor, that I have now received... | |
 | John Walker - 1823 - 406 pages
...adopt the falling inflexion with considerable force in the caesura of the last line but one. EXAMPLES. One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit ; Not only bounded to peculiar arts, • But oft in those confin'd to single parts ; M 2 Like kings,... | |
 | Martin MACDERMOT, Martin M'Dermot - 1823 - 434 pages
...when he seeks to distinguish himself in several arts at the same time ; for, as Pope observes : — " One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." The man of taste must, therefore, consider himself as a mere judge of beauty ; but he must always look... | |
 | Martin M'Dermot, Martin MacDermot - 1823 - 438 pages
...to distinguish himself in several arts at the same time ; for, as Pope observes : — " One scieface only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit." The man of taste must, therefore, consider himself as a mere judge of beauty ; but he must always look... | |
 | John Humphreys Parry - 1824 - 462 pages
...there are certain talents, which are not always compatible. It has, indeed, been observed that — One science only will one genius fit, So vast is art, so narrow human wit. But the Life of Edward Llwyd disproves the infallibility of the rule, since he was, in an eminent degree,... | |
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One science only will one genius fit ; So vast is art, so narrow human wit : Not only bounded to peculiar arts, But oft in those confin'd to single parts. 
